The major parties have agreed in-principle to a new aged care funding model after the Albanese government accepted another demand from the Coalition to exempt people on home care waiting lists from the new user-pays fee structure.

They will join existing nursing home residents who, under the original proposal, were already exempt from the new fee structure that will apply to all others entering the aged care system, including pensioners and self-funded retirees, not just the so-called “wealthy”.